Sims 2
by Electronic Arts
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Product Summary
Brand: Electronic ArtsRelease Date: 2006-06-15
Platform: Nintendo DS
Model: 14633151299
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Product features:
- Control your Sims through all of the fully customizable locations - each one unique per platform
- Create thousands of your own food recipes, clothing designs, potions, inventions, and even personal music tracks and paintings
- Tell your own stories and directly control your Sims lives to build their worlds, excel in their careers, and fulfill their wants while avoiding their worst fears!
Video Game Reviews of Sims 2
Customer Review: It's different
Summary: 5 Stars
First if your buying this game expecting a hand held version of the either the PC classic or even the console version, your gonna be soley disappointed. It's called Sims2, but in some ways it's not the same. You play a person(who you can create just like in other Sims games) who's car breaks down in a small town, while waiting for your car to be fixed you take on the role of a hotel manager. Unlike the other games, you have an objective, to build and run your hotel. There's a prety colorful cast of oddballs(most of whom are pictured on the cover) and as you build rooms and check people in get to know them etc etc.
There is no woohooing, or any other areas you can explore. You have a series of goals that you have to achieve and it's almost like a regular game with some sims mechanics to it.
Does that make it a bad game, simply because it's not a carbon copy of the other? Absolutely not. In fact, while some tasks as others have mentioned get repetitive, the main goals are quirky enough to keep you interested and there's a bit of social commentary about the dangers of conformity with one. The people you meet are an odd bunch indeed, a gangster, his daughter, an arrogant out of work sci-fi actor(I'll give you 3 guesses who he's based on, and the first 2 don't count), a mummy, a moleman, an alien just to name a few.
One thing I found interesting is the game is played in real-time. For example, it take 8hrs to build a room. Now to those familiar with the PC Sims knows that an hour is a minute. However in this game, it really is 8hrs. If you start a room being built at 1pm, the room will be finished a 9pm. And yes, as one other reviewer pointed out, the game progresses even when your not playing. So if you build a room at 1pm even if you don't play again until 9pm, the room will still be done.
There are some flaws to the game, one of the minigames is to repel an alien invasion and it's difficult to aim at the aliens especially on the sundeck where you end up aiming at furniture.(note to those having trouble, dress as the rattinator) Also, when you bust crooks you have a split second between stunning them and throwing a rattarang before they escape. So you end up having to leave the screen and comeback and try again.
It's also not clear in the game how your supposed to deal with the mole king(hit him with the water gun) and Optimus Alfred(you have to beat him 3 times, including defeating a swarm of robots twice)
The real-time nature of the game has a drawback. Guests will check out of the hotel even when your not playing and if they're not in a good mood(moods change as well when not playing) they will check out and not pay fully. Keep track of what days your guests are checking out and try if you can to play at some point during the day to make sure they're in a good mood.
Also those who played Sims the Urbz will recognize some of the NPC's in the game. To those who haven't played it, it only refernces the Urbz once. When you build up relationships with the NPC(none playable characters) they give secrets and on Sim says he was replaced by a robot in the previous game. That's a reference to the Urbz, but that's the only one that'll leave those who haven't played it baffled.
All in all, despite it's shortcomings with the real-time problem issues and side missions being a little repetetive, if your a fan of the Sims, I say at least check it out.
Description of Sims 2
The Sims 2 gives you the fun of the classic SIms world, in a portable and easy-to-navigate format. Create a fictional life for your Sims and keep them happy, healthy and prosperous! Direct an entire Sims' lifetime, and try to get them to reach their goals in life. Will they have a long, successful and happy life - or will they end up poor and heartbroken? It's up to you!Role-Playing Games
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